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n -1 Salem Turns Tilt Into Rout f - In Final Half After Portland Clouting Cuban Keeps Welter Crown; Eves on 01s ons Title By JACK HAND CHICAGO (JB - Welterweight ehanpion Kid Gavilan proved Fri day night he still has "it" with a brutal punching display against outclassed Johnny Bratton of Chi cago to keep his title on a unan imous decision in 15 rounds. . Stung by reports he was "all washed up," the slick Havana Keed threw the book at his sev enth challenger with a ferocity Cavemen Sock Mighty North Bend, 14-12 NORTH. BEND W) Mighty North Bend, No. 1 throughout the ; poll, was beaten 14-12 by Grants Pass in the major upset of the opening round of the state football championships Friday night. The loss was the first in 10 1 starts for North Bend, the district 5 champion. Grants Pass, from district 8, has a record of six wins, two defeats, and two ties. Don 'Korn 'scored both touch downs for Grants Pass both in the first quarter. Allen Drews pro vided the winning margin with successful conversions. Don Graham passed to Dick Egenoff for North Bend's first touchdown. Jim Shanley scored the other. Spartans Test Indian Eleven PALO ALTO, Calif. OP) Rifle armed Bob Garrett leads the Rose Bowl minded Stanford Indians against the San Jose State Spar tans in a non-conference but im portant football, game here Satur day. The kickoff is set for 2 p.m. Neither team should be handi capped if it rains occasionally, as forecast. Although the outcome does, not count in the Coast Conference standings, the Indians need this win as well as one against Cali fornia a week later. Their overall record, as well as league perform ances, may figure when the PCC faculty athletic heads begin voting for the Rose Bowl representative. Stanford, with the country's fin est passer on its side, is strongly favored. that had the ' Chicago Stadium yelling "stop it" through the final rounds. Referee Frank Gilmer let the uneven struggle continue as Brat ton retreated under steady fire with both eyes puffed and bis hands up. ; Shower of Blows In the eighth round, Gavilan actually rained 53 blows be lieve it or not on his cornered opponent. As punch after punch thudded home on Bratton' s sup posedly china jaw, it seemed he certain must go down. It was the same kind of helpless retreat that Randy Turpin made when ho was backed to the ropes by Bobo Ol son. The third meeting between the two old foes was strictly no con test from the early rounds. Brat- ton's early speed soon faded under the steady pounding by Gavilan. When cornered, Bratton flurried back while he was able, but he simply didn't have it The decision was a mere for mality for the big, near sellout crowd. They knew the king had won handily in probably his last welter defense. -Now he wants to move up into the middleweight, and mav - fight champion Bobo (Cont'd Next Page) Viking Ball Carrier Downed After Good Gain Against Tech Catholic Rips Chico Staters Want Meeting With Linfield CHICO. Calif. A meeting In December with Linfield College officials! will be sought by Chico State College to try to iron out differences resulting from a foot ball game at McMinnville last Saturday. The secretary to Dr. Glenn Ken- dan, Chico s president, said Fri day Kendall will try to arrange a meeting with Linfield s presi dent. Dr. Harry Dillin, opposing coaches and others. Linfield offficials said after the game, which Linfield won 20-13, that Chico was guilty of unsports manlike conduct. Later" they can celled next year's game at Chico, Dr. Kendall , and Ernie Busch, Chico coach, said after viewing movies of the game Thursday that Linfield's charges were not borne out. Hillsboro 26-7 i HILLSBORO tf Central Cath olic, the defending state high school football champion, elimi nated Hillsboro from this year's playoffs with a 26-7 victory here Friday night. Chuck Withers and John Vrani zan each scored two touchdowns for the winners. Chuck Cot a caught a pass from Dick Edwards for Hillsboro's lone tally. Central Catholic, the district 3 winner and tied for second in the Associated Press high school foot ball poll, will meet Salem, also tied for second place, in next weekend's semifinals. V- V - v - '- , :' 'S . (;. ' t s 0j ( r 'A I (9 LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FIELD, PORTLAND Terry Salisbury, hard-running Salem Viking back (55), is hauled down by Benson Tech's Bob Lindsley after a substantial gain in the first period of Friday night's Class Al state quarter-finals contest The Sa lem player at right (28) is Halfback Neil Scheidel snd in left background is Viking Half Ray Taylor (41). The Tech player in back of Lindsley is Back Jerry Simpson. Coach Lee Gustafson's Vikings streaked to a 31-6 win over Benson to gain a semi-finals slot against Central Catholic next week. (Statesman Sports Photo.) Chamos SnareEarly Advantage LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FIELD, PORTLAND (Special) A slashing, darting gang of Salem High School Vikings roared into the semi-finals of the State Class A prep football playoffs Friday night with a resounding 31-6 victory over Benson Tech's Engineers, champs of the Portland City League. Coach Lee Gustafson's men spotted Ralph Harper's Techmen a touchdown in the first period, then turned the game all one way with six-pointers in the second and third periods and two in the final quarter. On top of that the Capital City eleven added safeties in the second and. fourth periods, attesting to the ferocious charge of their forward walL After the initial period in which the Vikings appeared a little on the jittery side, the winners thoroughly dominated the quarter finals contest The win earned them the right to meet Central Cath olic in next week's semi-finals action. Xh opening kickoff went to Salem and the Viks drove 71 yards to the Tech four where they missed a first down by a foot. The Portlanders took over and proceeded to go 96 yards in three plays. The big item was a pass from Jerry Simpson to End Gene Grenier that totaled 61 yards down to the Salem 30. Grenier bagged the oval and boomed down to the i 30 where he fumbled the leather, but a teammate picked up the oval and zoomed bn to the 10 be fore he was stopped. Two plays later Jim Williams, Benson's snappy ball carrier, romped eieht vards for the first score of rthe ball game. Don Kravenek's try for point was no good. Early in the second quarter, Williams intercepted a Herb Triplett aerial on the Benson two Salem Benson 1st Downs Yds. Rushing Yds. Lost Rush. Yds. Passing J Passes Att. Passes Com pi. Passes Had Int. Fumbles . 20 .380 Fumbles Lost Punts Punt Ave. Yds. Lost Pen. - 17 139 . 21 . 9 2 - 1 0 0 65 3 58 0 lis 12 . 5 0 3 2 6 26.0 33 levos Foe at Corvallis; WeMeots Inlope to Swpinse Cal Staters' New I ' . TT, " I Bears Respect a. Duck Flights Arrive Here Duck hunters in the Salem area will rejoice in learning that the first big flights of northern birds were noted Thursday night and Friday, and that more are expected. Stor my weather in Canada is now driving the birds both ducks and geese southward. It was en Armistice Day. 1952, that the first flights of the northern birds were noted in this area. This year it was the day after Armistice Day. No. there were no Capistrano bound swallows detected in the flights. Saints Snare Playoff Win ST. HELENS m Owen Ragan scored four touchdowns to lead St. Helens to a 33-12 victory over Reedsport here Friday night. The loss eliminated Reedsport from further contention for the State Class A-2 football title. Jerry Flugg and Hallie Henning scored for the losers. The winners, who now advance to the semifinals, represent dis trict 1. Reedsport is the district 2 winner. Stadium Opens CORVALLIS UH Oregon State will officially open its new foot ball stadium, Parker" Field, when it meets the Washington State Cougars in Saturday's Pacific Coast Conference game here. Washington State is favored to win over the Beavers who have won only one game this year. But OSC coach Kip Taylor has predicted an upset. He said his team's spirit, the fact that the game will be before a fnendly hometown crowd, and the players' desire to open their stadium with a victory, will be in Oregon State's favor. Beavers to Pass Tiylor has been drilling the squad behind locked gates all week. But he has let it be known that OSC hopes to do a lot of passing, both from the single wing and the T. The probable starting backfield for Oregon State will be Chuck Brackett, Jack Peterson, Ralph Carr and Jack Pinion. Washington State's backfield will be Bob Burkhart, Wayne Berry, Jim Hagerty and Vaughan Hitch cock. At least 15.000 are expected for the game which will begin at 1:30 p.m. Viks Gloomy cis Benson Scores N r h ; ? - LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FIELD, PORTLAND This general shot f the Salem Viking bench was taken Inst after Benson Tech bad scored the first touchdown of Friday nighfs playoff game with Salem. From left to right: Harold Santee (20); next two men un identified; Bob Cotner (35) and Jerry Gflman (14). The gloomy expressions changed to smiles soon after as Salem moved ahead, pi mm MM Statesman, Salem, Ore. Saturday. Not. 14, 1953 (Sec 2) 1 Amity Whips Gervais 41-20, Gains B Semis . NEWBERG (Special) Amity's Warriors, champions of District B-l, gained the semi-finals of the State Class B grid playoffs Fri day night as they thumped the Gervais Cougars 41-20 in a quarter finals clash on neutral Newberg High School field. The victory earned Amity the Oregon State Brattain XX.. Skief -LT. Ferguson LG Fulwyler , ...t-- Johnson RG. Buettgenbacht kt. Ediger RE. Brackett Q- Peterson z.LH- Carr RH. Pinion F. Wash. State Quackenbusti - Gunnarl Leifeste Stone Thompson Schwrak a Pelluer Burkhart Berry i Hagerty ; Hitchcock Tom Fool Voted As Horse of Year NEW ; YORK 1 Tom Fool, four-year-old son of Menow from the Greentree" Stable, Friday was named the horse of 1953 by the turf experts of The Morning Tele graph and Daily Racing Form. . Tom Fool, unbeaten in 10 starts this year and winner of $256,335, also was named the best handicap horse and top sprinter of the year. BOWLING CAMTOL. MINORETTK UAGUI CASCADE MEATS 3 Adams 374. Vojt 331. Amunds 37S. Monner 447. HOUt 405. SLUE l-AUMJU (1) Ellison 355. Flwood 329. Geyer 283. Stoltenber 263. Sinnett 371. WILCOX CAFE M) W11COX 424, Case 3SS. Jenkins 439. Heinonen 319. Sahdd 395. FED. ORE. AGCV. ( Gooly 334. Kirk 311. Tabler 291. Leach 346. Graffius 380. ' - tADDS MARKET (2) Hannum 39. Long 366. Wattier 34. forley 400, WiDulis 348. SNIDER ELECTRIC (2) Hoover 331. Drake 381. lur na trick 346. Bolton 294. Besls 419. DICKSON'S MARKET 3 Mehan 394. MeMorris 322. Hirons 193. Ma ther 260. CandcT 380. GUSY AND GREER (1) Pavlov 325. Watson 319. Blind 220. Meffert 342. Gardner 320, Gurm 114. THE HUB (11 Amen 388. DeGeer 317. Stettler 337. Fields 354. Wolfe 323. W. C. DYER c SON (3) Davis 370. Scott 373, Davis 360. Dyer 320. Gutierrez 294. nVE WRONG NUMBERS (4 Turn bull 434. Dougherty 319. Beatv 395. Burrh 44L Pearson 462. MARION CREAMERY 0 Herri g 357. Mer. reU 443. Feldschau 272. Knox 315. Hamerskl 312. High team series, S Wrong Num bers. 2050. ;-. High team game. S Wrong Num bers. 72. High Individual scries. C. Pearson. 4C2. High individual fame, X. . Turn- Solon Chiefs SBC Guests Manager Hugh Luby, Presi dent Bruce Williams and Board Members George Paul us, Tom Holman, Russ Bone Steele and Bob Ashby of the Salem Senators are to be the honored guests at the Monday morning meeting of the Salem Breakfast Club, it way announ ced Friday by Ken Potts; The baseball men will ren der a report on the recent 'Western International League meeting at Victoria, and will deliver plans for ball club op eration next season. The meeting will get started at 7:30 a.m. Monday. Idaho Underdog Against Tigers MOSCOW, Idaho LB The Col lege of Pacific Tigers bring .their passing show to Idaho Saturday and the crippled Vandals are giv en little chance to outdo the featured players, Roy Ottoson and Ken Buck. The Tigers, who beat Stanford in the opener but have had trouble since, are rated at least 13 points better. If the' Ottoson-Buck bat tery is ' charged up to par and the weather is right, it'll probably be more. The Vandals, who have beaten only Montana while losing six. will be without Flip Kleffner, their best ball carrier -and a great punt er. He suffered a shoulder sena ration last week against Oregon and is through for the season. Ted Frostenson, another back, is also out. . Coburg Defeats Brownsville Club BROWNSVILLE tfl Coburg defeated Brownsville 66-30 in the opening round of the state six-man football playoffffs here Friday nig Clint Crownover got five touch downs tor. the winners. Rudy Herr right to meet the winner of the Oakland-Monroe, mix in next week's semi-finals. The Warriors scored in every period in downing Bill Patter son's Cougars, but the game ac tually was close most of the way. Amity pushed over a pair of touchdowns in the opening pe riod after Gervais had opened the pointmaking on a 50-yard re turn of a punt by Gary Espe. The Warriors tallied again in the second period to make it 20-7 at the half. Two more Amity touchdowns followed in the third quarter and - another in the fourth. Gervais scored in the third and final periods. Jerry Lenhardt went 30 yards for the first Amity six-pointer and Bill Kallenbach got the sec ond on a two-yard sleeper play. Merle Stephens tallied twice for tl3 winners, once on a 30-yard run. Other Amity scores were made by Gene Ehlers and Dick McKenny. , : : Don Reiling passed for the final two Gervais touchdowns, one coming on a 16-yarder to Gil Thompson and the other an eight-yarder to the same man. Ehlers kicked four Amity con versions and Lenhardt picked up one. Gervais 7.0 6 720 Amity .........14 6 14 741 Duck Defense By RUSS NEWLAND BERKELEY. Calif. JT Call fornia's Bears, the highest scor ing team in the Pacific Coast Conference, will try to accom plish Saturday what no other club has done this season score more than two touchdowns against Oregon. Occasional rain is fore cast. The kickoff is at 2 p.m.' The Bears bounced back from a 7-20 loss to UCLA to rout Wash ington 53-25 last week. They hope to maintain the pace against an Oregon squad that has shown defensive ruggedness throughout the season and pres ently is riding on a three-game winning streak that numbers mighty Southern California among the victims. Passes Help Cat Through the years. California teams have been noted for their power on the ground. This season the yardage is being plucked from the air. Paul Larson, the convert ed halfback, is the reason. Sliding out of the T" formation Larson has put together sensational aer lal games. Against Washington, Larson hit 10 out of 12 aerials for 240 yards. Altogether, California completed 14 out of 19 for 349 yards. With the overhead game click ing, there hasn't been need for thrusts on land, except occasional ly. The Bears also have some fine runners, including Larson himself. (Cont'd Next Page) FOOTBALL HSCORESS 25 North Marion Cagers Report Statesman Newt Service NORTH MARION UNION HIGH SCHOOL Reporting for basketball at North Marion were 25 boys including three letter men Larry Cole, Merle McLaren and Dale Callaway. Basketball schedule for North Marion: Dec 4, Woodburn there; Dec 8, Canby here; Dec 11, Woodburn here; Dec 18, Jam boree here; Dec 29, Canby there; Jan. 5, Sheridan there;- Jan. 8, Sherwood there; Jan. 12, Banks here; Jan. 15, Yamhill here; Jan. 19, Amity there; Jan. 22, Willa mina here; Jan. 26, Dayton here; Jan. 29, Sheridan here; Feb. 2, Sherwood here; Feb.' 5, Banks there Feb. 9, Yamhill there; Feb. 12. Amity, here; Feb. 16, Willa mina there; Feb. 19, Dayton there; Feb. 25, Cascade here; Feb. 26-March 6, district tourna HIGH SCHOOL (Class A-l Quarter-Finals) Salem 31, Benson 6 Cent Catholic 26, Hillsboro 7 Grants Pass 14, North Bend 12 (A-2 Quarter-Finals) PrineviUe 26, Vale 6 St Helens 33, Reedsport 12 Coquille 19, Drain 7 (Class B Quarter-Finals) Amity 41, Gervais 20 Milwaukie 37, Oregon Cky 19 Six-Man Playoffs) Coburg 66, Brownsville 3 COLLEGE Miami 26, Virginia Tech at the end of a Vik drive. The Tech back was downed on the spot and when he went back to punt on the ensuing play, Line man Bob Payne plowed through to block the boot and give Salem two points on a safety the Viks irst scoring of the game. Fumbles Exchanged Later in the second period, Sa em drove down to the 15 but End Phil Burkland fumbled after taking a pass from Triplett and Benson recovered. The breaks were squared two plays later as ! Jim Davis of Tech also fumbled and Bill Jacobscn recovered for the Capital City Crew on the en emy 16. Three plays later Salem had its first touchdown of the contest and bounced into the lead for the first time. . An 11-yard pass from Triplett to Burkland set up the score and Terry Salisbury then boomed over in two tries from the one. Kick specialist Ray Taylor kicked the point to make it 9-6. That was the score at the intermission. The first time the Vikings got hands on the ball in the third pe riod they had touchdown No. 2 for the evening. Triplett returned a Benson punt to the Salem 35 and the Gustafson gang then went 65 yards in nine plays for the score. Trrplett passed for 29 and 10 yards to Burkland to spark the thrust and Triplett went the final three yards on a keep" play. Taylor s true kick made it 16-6. Jimmy Williams electrified the crowd of 5,000 on the next kick- off as he grabbed the oval on his own two and ran 98 yards to the Vik end zone. But Benson fans groaned when the long run was nullified by a clipping penalty. Late in the third period a Ben son punt went dead on the Salem six and it was then that the win ners fashioned their longest scor ing thrust of the night They pounded 94 yards in 11 plays and the big factors were: a 29-yard romp through tackle by Triplett; a 15-yard gallop by Scheidel; an 18-yard pass from Triplett to Scheidel and the same pass com bination for 14 yards and Salem touchdown No. 3. Taylor's conver sion kick was nullified by a pen alty and, trying from back on the 17, Taylor elected to try a pass instead of a kick. It failed. That, touchdown came in the first moments of the final period. Another Safety After the kickoff Benson, sty mied by the hard-charging Salem line, again had to kick. The Viks took over the ball on their own 37 and drove down to the enemy two where they were held. Then came the second Vik safety of 'OUTBOARD REPAIRS Winter Rates SALEM BOAT HOUSE 100 Chemeketa Ph.3-9303 the night as Williams was downed behind his own goal line by End Phil Burkland. That made it 24-6. The Techmen kicked, Triplett returned to the Benson 39 and in six plays the Salems completed their scoring for the evening. Salisbury was the big noise in this final thrust with runs of 18 and 26 yards, the latter romp being good for the score. Taylor booted accurately to make it 31-6. Another Benson fumble in the final moments again gave Salem opportunity and they drove to the enemy eight where the final gun caught them. Indicative of Salem's domin ance, the Viks piled up 20 first downs to three, had 380 yards rushing to the enemy's 58 and hit 139 from passing to Benson's 116. Salem had a total yardage of 519. Site of the Salem-Central Cath olic semi-final game will be de cided Sunday. SALEM: Ends Beck. Burkland. Error. Keech. Tackles Walling. Goddard. Griffin, Holmquist. Mathers. Mc Clellan, Cundiff. Jacobsen. Guards Newsome, Coates, Gilman, Cotnar. Centers Pickens. Payne. Backs Triplett. Scheidel. Taylor. RawUngs, Salisbury, Anderson. Juran. Salem i O 7 15 31 Benson 6 0 0 0 6 Salem scoring: Touchdowns Salis bury (2). Triplett. Scheidel. Safeties Payne, Burkland. Conversions Tay lor Officials: Al Lightner. referee: Bill Beard, head linesman: Wayne Bauer umpire; Len Patterson, field judge. Vale Defeated By Prineville VALE m - Prineville, the only A-2 team to make the top ten in the Associated Press high school football poll, defeated Vale 26-6 in the opening round of the A-2 play-. offfs here Friday night Prineville, the district S titlist. now ha a record of 10 wins and no losses. The loss was the first in nine starts for Vale, the district 7 winner,. Mel Gillette scored twice for the winners. Al Smith and Lewis Crane each added another. Gene Smith posted Vale's touchdown in the final quarter. Trabert Victor In Aussie Match SYDNEY, Australia fcrl Tony Trabert, the American, champion, had to extend himself on Sydney's hottest day in 18 months Friday, to eliminate Billy Knight 18-year-old British junior champion, in the second round of the New South Wales tennis championships. The scores were 0-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3. - Temperature reached 94 degrees in the shade. Trabert, out for a light workout, was immediately placed on the defensive by the eager youngster. America's Vic Seixas and Billy Talbert, the U. S. Davis Cup team captain, won easily over Austral ian opponents. TOP NAMES In All Types of Speed Equipment at 1 Pacific Auto Supply 188N. ComX Ph.4-3016 LIBERAL TRADE-IIIS ,x When You Buy A ' Naw USED SAWS IicCULLOCH CHAIII SAW 4 Models ATcrllable 33, 47, 4-30, 7-55 1 to 5-FL Blades PRICED AS LOW AS $22800 TOWIIE EQUIPHEIIT CO. 908 Edgwwoter .West Salem Phone 4-1541 it Ue FOOTBALL TODAY 1:45 P. II. Oregon at California , (An Associated . . Sporteast) SALEM r n then went on to win 31-C (Statesman Snorts Photo.) ; bull. 111. - -.. . aid all ue scoring for Brownsville, ment at Salem.